Safety rein-fastener



(No Model.)

E. E. BROWN.

SAFETY REIN PASTENER. Y

IQ-382,796. Patentedlvray 15, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ELMER E. BROWN, OE PORTLAND, MAINE, ASSIGNOE OE -ONEHALE To JOHN s. WILLIAMS, OE EOSTON, MAsSAoHUSETTS.

SAFETY REIN-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,796; dated May 15, 1888.

` Application filed December 30, 1887. Serial No. 259.392. (No model.)

do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

which will enable others skilled in theart to.

which it appertains to make and use the same. The method hitherto in use of attaching driving-reins to the bits is both inconvenient and unsafe, the time consumed in buckling or attaching the rein is l considerableand the tend-V ency of the leather to crack or breakl at the point where it is bent around the ring of the bit is great, requiring for safety constant inspection.

. The purpose of my invention is to provide a means or device for connecting the rein to the bit which shall be more easily and quickly used, and at the same time guard against the shape shown in Fig. 2, provided with holes a.-

a, by which it may be united to the end of the rein. At one end there is hinged to it the angular loop B. At theother end it is bent upward to a considerable degree, as shown more fully in Fig. 2. In Figs l and 2 it isshown attached by rivets j' to the rein C, the rein passing through the loop B, which should be slightly 4o' wider than the rein, the plate A being bent to a U shape after being attached.

The method of attaching the rein to the bit is obvious. The loop B being drawn backward and held down upon the rein, the bent` end .of the rein.is hooked upon the ringk D, the point E is pressed by the tumb vand fingerl of the other hand until the point lies against the surface of the rein, when the loop B ispushed over the point and the point released.

The time consumed in attaching the rein is much shorter than thatexpended when anyof the devices hitherto used are employed,.and the danger of parting of the rein at the ring is wholly avoided.

What I claim isl. The combination of the v driving rein with the Ushaped elastic metal hook having a pivoted loop, substantially as described.

2. A driving-rein provided with the U-V 6o shaped elastic hook having a curved point and a pivoted loop located at about equal distances from the bend of the hook, substantially as described. Y

3. The combination of the rein C, U-shaped 65 elastic plateor hook A, with 'curved end E invention I have hereunto. set my hand this '1o 22d day of December,"A. 4D.'lf `87.

ELMER E. BROWN.

In presence of;-

GEO. E. BIRD. ,CHARLES B. HARMON. 

